As dramatised on BBC Radio 4, Edna O'Brien's iconic trilogy of novels - The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss - depicts the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland. Edna O'Brien's debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s.

One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce.

The nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron's life.

The new novel by the legendary Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls.

Fire is the colour of genius. In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James Joyce. 'James Joyce had been my ultimate hero for sixty years, but to paint the canvas of his life was daunting.